Definitions
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- noun historical A member of a certain nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages
- noun the Turkic language spoken by these people
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another source of Turkic terms in Hungarian are words such as the dog names "puli" and "komondor" and a few local dialect terms that derive from the Cuman language, which was spoken east of Budapest in the "Kun" regions until the mid 1700s.
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The Mongols (Tatars), under Subutai, invaded southern Russia from the Transcaucasus region and completely defeated a coalition of Russian princes and Cuman leaders.
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And pottery of poor Cuman clay, with love, seem fair and fine?
The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse
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But the Cuman cohorts, opposing stratagem to force, moved off a little to one side, and when the enemy were carried beyond them in great disorder, they faced about and charged them in the rear.
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At his Cuman villa, he next began a Treatise on Politics, or on the best State of a City, and the Duties of a Citizen.
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You ask me what I have done about the books which I begun to write when in my Cuman villa: I have not been idle and am not being idle now; but I have frequently changed the whole plan and arrangement of the work.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
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At his Cuman villa, he next began a Treatise on Politics, or on the best State of a City, and the Duties of a Citizen.
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The Cuman cohorts made a strategical flank movement, and when the enemy had pressed forward in disordered pursuit, they wheeled round and attacked them in the rear.
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The scene then shifts from the Cuman villa to the library of young
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Cuma was properly Cuman; so Baiæ was Baian; and Alba near mount
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
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